Gradle Maven Publish Plugin

External

• https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_maven.html

Internal

• Gradle Concepts
• Gradle Artifact Publishing Concepts

Overview

"maven-publish" is an newer alternative to publishing with Maven Plugin. It generates Maven metadata and pushes the artifacts and the metadata to a Maven repository.

apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

"publishing" Extension

The plugin creates a "publishing" extension of type PublishingExtension. This extension provides a container of named publications and a container of named repositories.

publishing {
  publications {
    myPublicationName(MavenPublication) {
      // Configure the publication here
    }
  }
}

repositories {
    maven {
        url "${url}"
        authentication {
            basic(BasicAuthentication)
        }
    }
}

Publications are published to repositories via tasks.